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I have some unusual postage stamps in a commemorative folder, with a sleeve and a monogrammed tablet sleeve from an international organization. What is the easiest most profitable way to sell it ?
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Is there an easy way to set up an alert for a price drop in the situation I'm about to explain? I only want to buy from this particular store, I know that the price will drop, but it's a special edition that, if how quick it sold out elsewhere in the world is any indication, I'll need to jump on ASAP as soon as it does (which is why I'm hoping for a more reliable method than remembering to check). The current name of the product on the website includes "(placeholder price)", so the URL will change when the price drops. The product, if it helps: https://ebgames.com.au/3ds-208717-Fire-Emblem-Fates-Special-Edition-Placeholder-Price-Nintendo-3DS I did a rudimentary search for price drop alerts but the first result looked shady and it probably wouldn't handle this situation anyway.
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Feb 23, 2016 12:18
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I have another question. I need to draw a caricature of an anal retentor flyer, ie, a massive anal retentor in an airplane seat. What can I draw the AR doing? I only learnt what it is yesterday :-/
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Feb 23, 2016 15:42
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Dawncloack posted:I have another question. What is an anal retentor? Do you mean an anal retentive? Like, someone who's really obnoxious about things being a particular way?
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Feb 23, 2016 15:48
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Draw them sitting on a seat that's been deformed by having part of it sucked up their rear end.
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tuyop posted:What is an anal retentor? Do you mean an anal retentive? Like, someone who's really obnoxious about things being a particular way? Yeah that. Anal Retentive. I come from Planet ESL. We come in peace.
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Feb 23, 2016 15:55
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Where does the college trope about basket weaving come from? The underwater part seems optional, but people use the term to deride useless majors or classes. Thing is, I've never heard of a legitimate basket weaving class for college credit. Is this something that exists or existed or did someone make it up and then the meme stuck?
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Feb 23, 2016 16:14
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:Where does the college trope about basket weaving come from? The underwater part seems optional, but people use the term to deride useless majors or classes. I'm not sure when it started (it's been around my entire life, I'd guess it came from mocking "folksy" electives emerging in the 60's), just chiming in to say that when I first heard the phrase I thought it was entirely a joke in the sense of students themselves being fully immersed in water and like weaving a basket while chilling on the bottom of a pool or whatever. But I found out later that underwater basket weaving is actually a very common method if you are using certain kinds of wood or plants, you hold the wooden sticks underwater while weaving them together as this makes them flexible and they won't snap.
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Feb 23, 2016 16:26
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Can someone (or multiple someones) running Windows 10 please conduct an experiment for me? 0. Open up the Edge browser, clear all browsing data, then close it. 1. Reopen Edge, and then open a new InPrivate window. Typing "amaz" should offer suggestions below the URL bar, but not auto-complete to anything. 2. Visit amazon.com in the InPrivate window. 3. Close all Edge windows, then reopen Edge. 4. Type "amaz" and see if Edge auto-completes to "amazon.com" For me at least, InPrivate mode doesn't seem to be erasing the things it claims to erase: it retains a history of websites I visited in InPrivate windows even after Edge is completely closed. Which kind of defeats the purpose of InPrivate browsing. You may now proceed to make "porn mode" jokes at my expense. Grundulum fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Feb 23, 2016 |
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Feb 23, 2016 16:53
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:Where does the college trope about basket weaving come from? The underwater part seems optional, but people use the term to deride useless majors or classes. It's a legitimate merit badge (which I received) in the Boy Scouts so it probably came from there.
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Feb 23, 2016 16:58
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Grundulum posted:Can someone (or multiple someones) running Windows 10 please conduct an experiment for me? Did you see if it would autocomplete amazon before you visited it in private mode? The browser could be autocompleting not on visitation history, but though figuring out that someone typing "amaz" is probably going to Amazon.
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Feb 23, 2016 17:03
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Dawncloack posted:I have some unusual postage stamps in a commemorative folder, with a sleeve and a monogrammed tablet sleeve from an international organization. Easiest way would be to go to a stamp collecting shop and sell it to them. They may even sell it on consignment for you for a portion of the sale price. You could probably get more selling directly to someone, but it doesn't sound like you're really part of the stamp collecting community where you live. Try eBay maybe? Ultimately you'll have to decide what your time is worth, and if any additional money you could get off the sale is more or less than the time you spent trying to do it yourself instead of going through a shop.
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Feb 23, 2016 17:10
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dupersaurus posted:Did you see if it would autocomplete amazon before you visited it in private mode? The browser could be autocompleting not on visitation history, but though figuring out that someone typing "amaz" is probably going to Amazon. I forgot to mention that immediately before this experiment I cleared almost everything Edge might track (browsing history, cookies/saved data, cached data/files, download history, form data, and passwords). In a pristine state, Edge won't auto-complete the website. I am editing my post to reflect that.
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Feb 23, 2016 17:10
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Grundulum posted:Can someone (or multiple someones) running Windows 10 please conduct an experiment for me? I went to a personal website in InPrivate that MS would not know the URL for, it did not carry over to regular mode. Amazon DID autocomplete when I never visited it but only when I typed "amazo". Typing "amaz" did nothing.
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I'm using a laptop as an RA. Yesterday, Windows said my key was expiring, and I needed to contact my admin to get a new one. I did, and he said to open my 'Cisco Anyconnect Secure Mobility Client' and it would update automatically. I opened it, and it did. It also connected to my University and made my usual WiFi connection say 'limited' while it was on, but I'm miles from my university. What is the Cisco software? Today it asked to be reconnected and I haven't yet, because I'm not sure what it is. Do I just need it when updating, or is it a good idea to have it on at all times? What else is it for?
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AlphaKretin posted:Is there an easy way to set up an alert for a price drop in the situation I'm about to explain? If you're on a Mac, a Linux box, or some other unix-flavored goodness, you can keep a terminal window open and run a little one-line script to take a look at the webpage every few minutes and tell you when something about it has changed: code:Better still would be to set this up as a scheduled job on a server somewhere and have it email you when it detects a change. If you want, PM me your email address and I'll set it up on one of mine. (I've already done the "hard" part anyway by writing the one-liner above.) e: Gaaah it put bbcode url tags in the code block how do I get them out I am not good with computer Powered Descent fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Feb 23, 2016 |
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Feb 23, 2016 19:19
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Are there any human diseases that are only transmissible by one kind of bodily fluid? Usually when I think of things like HIV or whatever, they can be transmitted by multiple fluids.
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DavidAlltheTime posted:I'm using a laptop as an RA. Yesterday, Windows said my key was expiring, and I needed to contact my admin to get a new one. I did, and he said to open my 'Cisco Anyconnect Secure Mobility Client' and it would update automatically. I opened it, and it did. It also connected to my University and made my usual WiFi connection say 'limited' while it was on, but I'm miles from my university. What is the Cisco software? Today it asked to be reconnected and I haven't yet, because I'm not sure what it is. Do I just need it when updating, or is it a good idea to have it on at all times? What else is it for? I'm assuming that its like a VPN client that it uses to validate the key and allow you to access the university databases from off campus.
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hooah posted:Are there any human diseases that are only transmissible by one kind of bodily fluid? Usually when I think of things like HIV or whatever, they can be transmitted by multiple fluids. Mono is only transmitted by saliva, but that's about all I know.
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Feb 23, 2016 21:36
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DavidAlltheTime posted:I'm using a laptop as an RA. Yesterday, Windows said my key was expiring, and I needed to contact my admin to get a new one. I did, and he said to open my 'Cisco Anyconnect Secure Mobility Client' and it would update automatically. I opened it, and it did. It also connected to my University and made my usual WiFi connection say 'limited' while it was on, but I'm miles from my university. What is the Cisco software? Today it asked to be reconnected and I haven't yet, because I'm not sure what it is. Do I just need it when updating, or is it a good idea to have it on at all times? What else is it for? What's an RA? Cisco AnyConnect is a VPN that connects from your local network to the university network. If this was a laptop issued by the school then they probably have a local windows volume licensing server that it had to connect to to validate. Unless you have a need to be connected to university network applications or websites, you don't need to be connected all the time.
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FCKGW posted:What's an RA? Thanks! RA is a research assistant. Sorry, I type it all the time but no reason everyone would know what it means.
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bvoid posted:Mono is only transmitted by saliva, but that's about all I know. That is most common, but the Mayo clinic says that the viruses that cause mononucleosis can also be transmitted via blood and sexual contact. I don't think it's likely that there are any known diseases that are transmitted through only one bodily fluid. Your pulmonary system is just too involved with other fluid systems for that to be the case if I had to hazard a guess.
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I bet there's some otherwise non-contagious diseases you could contract if you had some kind of cerebrospinal fluid mingle party.
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hooah posted:Are there any human diseases that are only transmissible by one kind of bodily fluid? Usually when I think of things like HIV or whatever, they can be transmitted by multiple fluids. Pregnancy comes to mind.
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Grundulum posted:Pregnancy comes to mind. The worst STD.
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So... men are asymptomatic carriers?
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Powered Descent posted:If you're on a Mac, a Linux box, or some other unix-flavored goodness, you can keep a terminal window open and run a little one-line script to take a look at the webpage every few minutes and tell you when something about it has changed: Oh sweet, thanks. Conveniently enough I am on a Mac, so I'll just keep a terminal window open. Thanks again for the offer, though.  And yeah, I think overzealous URL parsing is a known issue with the forums, you have to turn it off for that post in the options below where you're typing.
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Powered Descent posted:e: Gaaah it put bbcode url tags in the code block how do I get them out I am not good with computer Right click and paste instead of ctrl-v
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I got in an at-fault road accident a week and a bit ago; no injuries for myself or the other party reported at the scene, and a trip to the shop with a totally crumped front-right for me. Got a call from my adjuster today (that I wasn't able to return, bad timing at work) saying that the other party in the accident had retained a lawyer and were going for medical money. (It was a <10 mph crash and it looked at the scene like no one was hurt, with me asking they were OK and them affirming several times; local culture and my own cynicism leads me to say it's an ambulance chase. I suppose it could be a delayed-onset injury but frankly I doubt it in this case) Obviously I'm calling the adjuster back tomorrow, but for sake of putting my own fears to rest, what can I expect going forward? My guess is "adjuster asks questions, other party probably gets money out of my medical liability ($150k), and I get a rate hike, and nothing else is said". Is that about right? While I'm at it anyone know if Geico regularly does accident forgiveness as far as rate hikes?  (edit) I'm in Nevada in the US if that affects much Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Feb 24, 2016 |
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I was in a disputed accident a few years back, somebody backed into my truck while I was pulling out of a parking space and claimed I was at fault. It was a 1 mph collision, with barely any damage, and they claimed medical expenses. I told the insurance company that was bullshit and that they were lying, and a week later I got a letter from them informing they had settled and paid the jerks a few thousand to go away. My rates went up by a bit and that was the end of it. 
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hooah posted:Are there any human diseases that are only transmissible by one kind of bodily fluid? Usually when I think of things like HIV or whatever, they can be transmitted by multiple fluids. Conjunctivitis And HPV.
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So, video games. Generally either made in Japan and Japanese then exported to the US with an only English translation, or made in or for the US in only English. From there, sent to Europe with only Eng/Spanish/Italian/German/French. (again, in general, as far as I know. Obviously there are exceptions) Maybe a Chinese translation we don't here about because they keep to themselves online. I'm curious what language people from, for example, Sweden or South Korea play games in? Not exactly a small question, but probably stupid and I don't think worth making a thread over, unless you think otherwise?
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AlphaKretin posted:So, video games. Generally either made in Japan and Japanese then exported to the US with an only English translation, or made in or for the US in only English. From there, sent to Europe with only Eng/Spanish/Italian/German/French. (again, in general, as far as I know. Obviously there are exceptions) Maybe a Chinese translation we don't here about because they keep to themselves online. I'm from the Netherlands, and very few games have a Dutch translation. So we play it in English. Was a very important English teacher (I did not have many friends in primary/high school).
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Northern Europe plays in English with the exception of Germany. They have their own niche market of German language tractor/truck/outhouse simulators and corny sword and sorcery games.
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Fruits of the sea posted:Northern Europe plays in English with the exception of Germany. They have their own niche market of German language tractor/truck/outhouse simulators and corny sword and sorcery games. Why do they like those sim gams so much?
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tuyop posted:Why do they like those sim gams so much? They like to make things efficient.
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tuyop posted:Why do they like those sim gams so much? Germans like to Do Things Properly and the sim games allow them to experience things like driving a truck Properly or managing a farm Properly without any of the physical or financial risks involved in doing those jobs for real. Kind of similar to how we in America have a lot of games about shooting people in the face.
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Earwicker posted:Germans like to Do Things Properly and the sim games allow them to experience things like driving a truck Properly or managing a farm Properly without any of the physical or financial risks involved in doing those jobs for real. Kind of similar to how we in America have a lot of games about shooting people in the face. And Japan has games where we get to look out a schoolgirl's panties.
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EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL 
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:Where does the college trope about basket weaving come from? The underwater part seems optional, but people use the term to deride useless majors or classes. I think it was originally a silly nickname for a blow-off class, i.e. one that's absurdly easy that you're guaranteed to pass, often taken by people on athletic scholarships as a way to artificially increase their GPA. As to why basket-weaving specifically, that I don't know...perhaps because people just assume basket weaving is super easy?
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Is this a real song or was it made for the vine? https://vine.co/v/OUljvzWBBiU
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